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Careers in Photography…

…are rarely secure, but even so this constitutes a short assignment. Our friends at Duckrabbit think this is a shame because at least it showed David Cameron taking photography seriously. Personally I am not so sure. What do you think the Government taking photography seriously would look like? And would it be a good thing […]

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Chair………….and a new Blog of the Week

Usually when we record a slide show for WeAreOCA we get the images and then record the audio. That’s what I asked OCA tutor Clive White to do when he was up for the photography assessment event last week. Clive however had different ideas. ‘I want to talk about one of Helen Rosemier’s images from […]

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On an exhibition 'crawl' at Brighton Photo Biennial

Yes, the analogy is not inappropriate. By the end of a long weekend of exhibition visits at Brighton Photo Biennial, OCA’s Director Gareth, photography tutor Clive, a selected group of students and myself felt very much intoxicated with photography. Such was the variety and sheer number of exhibitions in Brighton this year. The Brighton Photo […]

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Darcy Padilla

I have been thinking a lot about documentary photography over the last few weeks. Since we announced the MA in Fine Art we have had a number of students and former students asking us about an MA Photography and specifically courses in documentary photography. We are not ruling anything out, but it will be May […]

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A slice of ham

Getting a good image does not necessitate going to exotic locations or risking danger, sometimes the seemingly everyday has the potential to generate a meaningful image. OCA student Amano Tracy talks here about an image he captured in his mother’s house. I love it, even if I couldn’t remember the title. Recorded in the cafe […]

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London get-together: 4th December

Hardly a day goes by without more news on opportunities for OCA students to get together. Student Eileen Rafferty has details of this London get-together with a visit to the V&A Shadow Catchers exhibition here on flickr. Image by missconnaught66 also on flickr. Here at the OCA we like Creative Commons, but we are also […]

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Bexhill and Brighton

We now have the full details of free events and exhibition visits, we have lined up for the Brighton Photo Biennial on the weekend of 6 and 7 November. On Saturday 6 November, meet Photography Course Leader Jose Navarro and myself at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill to visit the Myth, Manners and […]

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A man shaped by war

  Don McCullin once gave me a valuable lesson. Yes, I’ve met the man, not in a far-flung war zone but in the safety of a lecture hall. I was responsible for introducing him to the audience and for operating the audiovisual equipment. As soon as he arrived, well before the talk started, McCullin handed […]

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Monkey's Wedding?

Not a phrase I have heard before, but nevertheless an interesting video by photographer Paul Graham. I was particularly taken by his definition of good art – “it’s about many things, it’s not just about one idea or one concept – it’s open, it’s about many different things and it’s often about more than the […]

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Street photography…start by putting your camera away

Bear with me; this is about photography after all. I felt an urge to write this post after visiting Steve McCurry’s exhibition in Birmingham. The text introducing the exhibition described McCurry’s images as ‘street photographs’, which I would dispute. To make matters worse, I learned about the Street Photography Now Project, a ‘street photography’ exercise […]

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